Pad-holder.



O. T. RASGHICK.

PAD HOLDER. APPLIGATIONIILED JAN. 9, 191a.

Patented Feb. 23, 1915.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

G. T. RASGHIGK.

PAD HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 9, 191a.

Patented Feb. 23, 1915.

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NORRIS PEHERS co. PHOTO'LITHO. WASHING TON, D. c.

, sired amount.

CHARLES T. BASCEICK, OF ST. RAUL, MINNES'UTA.

PAD-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patentodliob. 23, 1915.

Application filed January 9, 1913. Serial No. 740,996.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that 1, CHARLES T. RASCHLCK, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Paul, in the county of Ramsey and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pad-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in check holders consisting of a pad of debit slips which have a column of price symbols and which are adapted to be severed at a de This severed portion being given to the customer while the remaining portion or the stub being retained by the waiter or salesman.

The primary object ofmy invention is to provide a holder which will retain a pad of debit or any other slips so that a new slip is always in readiness and being adapted to hold the stubs of slips which have been severed out of the way so that a new slip can be easily and quickly read while the stubs are preserved in a neat and compact way and without mutilation so they can be used as a reference when turned in by a salesman to the proprietor.

A further object of my device is to protect the entire pad while being carried by the operator from being broken or soiled.

While the pad of debit slips illustrated in the accompanying drawings is particularly adapted to restaurant use it is obvious that my holder can be used with other types of debit checks and still retain the principle of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification and with which I have illustrated my invention, Figure 1 is a plan view of a pad of debit checks, held in my improved holder; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a back view of the holder; Fig. 1 is an end view of Fig.1; Fig. 5 is a plan of a pad of debit checks held in an alternative form of my holder and Fig. 6 is a side elevation of Fig. 5.

In the drawings A represents apad of debit checks such as are, used in restaurants to indicate the cost of a meal and with which my improved holder is adapted to be used. The checks or slips of said pad are marked with consecutive amounts 2 which are arranged in a vertical column and the slips are adapted to be severed at the amount which the customer is to pay. The checks are bound together at one end by the fastening 3 upon a stiff back 4 such as card board or other suitable material.

The holder may be provided with a sliding clip 13 which has a flat blade 5 having a cutting edge 6 and a stub diverting tongue 7 projecting substantially perpendicular from the back of the blade, and being curved inwardly to allow the blade to be drawn back on the pad as far as possible and economizing space. The blade 5 is adapted to be held in close contact with the pad A by spring loops 8 which are formed from a single piece of spring wire, having a transverse portion 9 lying on the blade 5 and passing through upwardly projecting cars 10 on either end of the blade 5. The ends of the spring wire and the loops 8 are secured to a spider formed back plate 11 in any suitable manner.

The holder (J has a back plate 12 which is a little longer than the pad A and just a trifle wider throughout its length and upon which the clip 13 is adapted to slide. The plate 12 is provided with an outturned pro jection 13 on one end and engaging points or teeth 14 near the other end which are stamped from the back 12 and are adapted to engage the pad A to hold the same in place in the holder against longitudinal or vertical movement.

On the upper end of the plate 12 are formed projecting flanges 15 to which a depressor 16 is pivoted by means of a transverse rod 17 and projecting flanges 19 formed on the inner surface of the depressor. A spring 18 is secured on the rod 17 to hold the depressor in contact with the upper surface of the plate 12 or the face of the pad A, when the same is in place, and is so formed that one end of the same engages the depressor While the other end is secured to the back plate 12.

Flanges 19 lie adjacent to the flanges 15 and serve to guide the depressor and hold the same in place. The depressor is formed to curve upward away from the end of the plate 12 to produce a concavity or space 20 into which stubs 21 of the severed checks are inserted and held depressed by the spring depressor. Thus when the waiter or salesman wishes to issue a check to the customer, clip B is slid along the pad A and the back 12 until the blade 5 registers with the desired amount and the check is torn 011 along the edge 6, the severed portion being given to the customer while the remaining stub is turned back under the depressor when the same is raised into the position illustrated in dotted outline (see Fig. 2). This leaves the pad A clear of the stubs and allows the operator to see at a glance the entire column of amounts making it more convenient to operate and keeping the stubs in the pad clean and in good form to be checked over when the pad is entirely used.

The holder C or housing may be attached to the belt of the operator by means of a chain 22 which is secured to the back 12 and only a portion of which is illustrated, or in any other suitable manner.

In the alternative construction illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6 the pad A has perforations 23 so that the operator can tear oil the desired amount. In this construction the sliding clip 13 is not necessary and holder C is identical to that illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and A with the exception of the means for engaging the pad A to hold the same on the back 12. In this construction I use posts or pins 24 which are secured in any suitable manner to the back 12 and project up through openings 25 in the pad A. These pins 24 together with the projection 13 serve to securely hold the pad A in the holder C when in use.

In accordance with the patent statutes I have described the principles of operation of my invention together with the apparatus which I now consider to represent the best embodiment thereof but I desire to have it understood that the construction shown is only illustrative and that the invention can be carried out by other means and applied to uses other than those above set forth within the scope of the following claims.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent is 1. In a device for holding a pad of checks which are secured together at one end and free at the other end, said holder comprising a housing member for said pad, teeth formed on said housing for engaging said pad to hold the same against longitudinal and vertical movement, and a spring depressor pivoted to said housing for engaging stubs of said pad to hold the same away from the surface thereof to expose a now check substantially as described.

2. In a device of the class set forth, a housing member for supporting a pad of checks having means on its ends for holding said pad longitudinally and vertically and a depressor hinged to swing longitudinally over the stub end of said pad to hold the stub back and away from the surface of said pad, and spring means carried by said housing member and adapted to urge said (lepressor down upon said stubs but permitting it to swing back free therefrom.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES T. RASCI-IIGK.

Witnesses:

H. L. FISCHER, F. G. BRADBURY.

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